Aitareya Upanishad

The Aitareya Upanishad is a short prose text from the Aitareya Aranyaka in the Rig Veda. It explains the symbolic meaning of the rituals described in the previous chapters of the Aranyaka, and contains particularly famous aphorisms (maha vakya) like prajnanam brahma - "Brahman is perfect knowledge". Aitareya Upanishad discusses the philosophy of the individual and the self, the theory of reincarnation, and the relationship between individual consciousness and the universal consciousness.

Aitareya 1.3.5

He wanted to take up the food with the eye. He did not succeed in taking it up with the eye. If He had taken it up with the eye, then one would have become satisfied by merely seeing food.


  • taccakṣuṣā'jighṛkṣat —

  • tannāśaknoccakṣuṣā —

  • grahītun —

  • sa —

  • yaddhainaccakṣuṣā'grahaiṣyaddṛṣṭvā —

  • haivānamatrapsyat — certainly would have been satisfied by food itself
    This word is used to concludes seven verses of this section

    • ha — indeed, certainly

    • eva — only, truly

    • annam — food

    • atrapsyat — would have been satisfied

Aitareya Upanishad